Tameside General Hospital

Tameside General Hospital is part of Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. Tameside General Hospital is situated in Ashton-under-Lyne. The hospital services a population of approximately 250,000 residing in the surrounding area of Tameside in Greater Manchester, and the town of Glossop in Derbyshire. In total, the trust has 538 beds and employs approximately 3,400 members of staff. In 2015/16, the trust had 52,475 admissions (23,908 inpatients and 28,567 day-case admissions), 310,068 outpatient attendances and 84,264 A&E attendances. During this inspection, the team inspected the following core services:

• Urgent and emergency services
• Medical care services (including older people’s care)
• Surgery
• Critical care

• Maternity and gynaecology
• Children and young people
• End of life care
• Outpatients and diagnostic services